Everything is Automatic

There’s lots bad about the time in history we all just got through, but if there was an upside, it was how it forced us to change our pace, and re-prioritize our lives. I’m not eager to go fully back to the “normal” we accepted before Covid-19; remote work, new ways to connect, new hobbies and level of self-sufficiency that we had to adapt to were worthwhile side-effects of a “great pause.” But our dependence on technology, and in particular, an unquestioning trust in Big Tech to save us, highlighted for me just how genuinely broken the industry I work in has become.

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Serving HTTP to old devices and HTTPS to new ones

Devices that pre-date modern encryption are still on the Internet. They shouldn’t be used for anything that needs security, but there’s still valid use-cases for serving content to them. Newer devices, on the other hand, are increasingly hostile to unencrypted content. The popular notion is that HTTPS helps reduce attacks — and while true, and…

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